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An assistant professor of Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) had registered a case against four IIT professors under the SC/ST Atrocities Act for harassing him, a police official said on Monday.
The case has been filed by Subrahmanyam Saderla, an assistant professor of the Aerospace Department, against four of his colleagues professors Ishan Sharma, Sanjay Mittal, Rajeev Shekhar and Chandrashekhar Upadhyaya under Section 500 of the IPC, Section 66 of the Information Technology Act and Section...

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday had inaugurated the Kundli-Manesar section of the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway in Haryana, in an effort to reduce pollution in the New Delhi.
It is learnt that the 136.65 Kms long six-lane Expressway, which will provide an alternative route to vehicles to go towards Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, will help in easing traffic flow, especially of heavy vehicles, through the national capital.
According to the media reports Haryana Chief Minister Manohar...

Former Indian captain and commentator Kapil Dev on Monday revealed few interesting things which include Virat Kohli special ability, Indian women chances at the ongoing ICC Women's World T20 and one of the most important points was about MS Dhoni, saying that people still expect him to play like a 20-year-old.
Speaking to media Kapil Dev said, "I think whatever he has done, he's done a great job. But I think the bad part is we are expecting the same 20 or 25 years old Dhoni, which is not going to...

World Toilet Day (WTD) is an official United Nations international observance day on November 19 to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis.
Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to achieve sanitation for all and end open defecation. World Toilet Day exists to inform, engage and inspire people to take action toward achieving this goal.
India is on the greatest toilet-building spree in human history. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s $20bn (£15bn) “Clean India” mission aims to construct...

Team India is all set to face the stiff challenge on the Australian Soil and India's vice-captain Rohit Sharma on Monday revealed that the team played a few close matches in Australia last time around. He also wants to make it count on the current tour.
The Indian batsman also said it feels good to perform in Australia as it gives a player a lot of confidence.
Speaking to media Rohit Sharma said, "The last time we came here there were a few close games. We want to make it count this time around....

PM Modi Promises More Accountable And Transparent Governance

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September 27 , 2015 , 15:25 IST

Pitching his pet Digital India initiative with the titans of the IT world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday promised to make governance more accountable and transparent while assuring data privacy and security.
Speaking before a gathering of Silicon Valley CEOs, Modi announced plans to create more public Wi-Fi spots including at 500 railway stations across India and an aggressive expansion of the National Optical Fibre Network to take broadband to 600,000 villages.
"As our economy and our lives get more wired, we are also giving the highest importance to data privacy and security, intellectual property rights and cyber-security," he said at a dinner interaction attended among others by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs and Google CEO Sunder Pichai.
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"We will transform governance, making it more transparent, accountable, accessible and participative," Modi said, adding that E-Governance is foundation of better governance, efficient, economical and effective.
In a nation of one billion cell phones, M-Governance or mobile governance has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. "It puts governance within everyone's reach," he said.
Modi said Digital India was born out of conviction that it was possible to rapidly transform the lives of people on margins and touch the lives of the weakest, farthest and the poorest citizen of India as also change the way our nation will live and work.
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"We will connect all schools and colleges with broadband. Building I-ways are as important as highways," he said.
"We are expanding our public Wi-Fi hotspots. For example, we want to ensure that free Wi-Fi is not only there in airport lounges, but also on our railway platforms. Teaming up with Google, we will cover 500 railway stations in a short time," he said.
The government, he said, wants to free citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office.
"We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments," he said.
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Setting up of Ebiz portal has made approvals for businesses and citizens easy and efficient, technology is being used to impart scale and speed to development, he said.
Calling for bridging the digital divide and promote digital literacy, Modi said in the same way that we seek to ensure general literacy, technology must be accessible, affordable and value adding.